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Les papillons : métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air

by: Nus, Eugène, 1816-1894, author; Méray, Antony, 1817- author; Varin, Amédée, 1818-1883, illustrator; Soye, E. de, printer; Raban, 1795-1870. Entomologie des dames; Gabriel de Gonet, éditeur, publisher

Publication date: 1852

Topics: Butterflies, Butterflies

Publisher: Paris : Gabriel de Gonet, éditeur

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: v. 2

The princess Ginebra married young to a man who could talk to spirits, asks her husband to give form to these spirits so that she too may know them. He asks her what form would she like to see them in and she chooses her favorite insect, the butterfly

Includes section: Entomologie des dames / par Le Cte Foelix

Plates are hand-colored accompanied by guard sheets. Includes 1 plate opposite p. 152 (t. 2)--entitled "Cazotte" which is not in list of illustrated plates found in vol. Plates are a mix of woodcuts (11 + 9) and steel engravings (9 + 6)

Binding: marbled paper over boards; half morocco

Carteret, L. Trésor, 1801-1875

Library's volume 1 has handwritten notes inserted

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

Addeddate: 2017-10-25 18:09:17

Associated-names: Méray, Antony, 1817- author; Varin, Amédée, 1818-1883, illustrator; Soye, E. de, printer; Raban, 1795-1870. Entomologie des dames; Gabriel de Gonet, éditeur, publisher